---
title: "Amazing Tech Turns You Into a CGI Character In Real Time"
description: "New technology from a computer graphics company called Cubic Motion can turn a motion-capture performance into a fully-rendered CGI character in real time. In a flashy demo for video game studio execs, Cubic Motion had a CGI character recite a script before suddenly addressing the crowd. In a remote studio, Digital Trends […]"
date: "2019-08-05"
modified: "2019-08-05"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cgi-character-real-time"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "cgi"
  - "motion capture"
  - "the digest"
  - "video games"
---

# Amazing Tech Turns You Into a CGI Character In Real Time

![A new CGI system can create a fully-rendered video game character based on a performer's motion capture data in real time.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cgi-character-real-time.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Cubic Motion via YouTube\</em\>*

## On The Fly

New technology from a computer graphics company called Cubic Motion can turn a motion-capture performance into a fully-rendered computer-generated character in real-time.

In a flashy demo for video game studio execs, Cubic Motion had a CGI character recite a script before suddenly addressing individual spectators. In a remote studio, *[Digital Trends ](<https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cubic-motion-scanning-technology/>)*[reports](<https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cubic-motion-scanning-technology/>), a performer was using the new real-time motion capture system to make the CGI character interact with people in the room. It was a bit of a spectacle, but also a fascinating illustration of how far graphics technology has come.

## Fourth Wall

Cubic Motion isn’t the first company to crack real-time motion capture CGI — the [tech already exists](<https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automating-hollywood-art>) in extremely high-budget Hollywood productions.

But the company's system, which uses cameras to monitor people's facial movements in high detail, is an improvement over most contemporary systems, which still need to animate some things by hand, according to *Digital Trends*.

## Now What

Cubic Motions' president, Andy Wood, told *Digital Trends* that his company's tech could make video game characters more realistic or even someday let people insert avatars of themselves into games.

But he also had more questionable ideas, like motivating people to hit the gym by rendering a more athletic version of them, or building CGI tutors that look like older versions of kids struggling with math. Those bizarre applications could show that the tech is also, in some cases, a solution in search of a problem.

**READ MORE:** [CGI faces will soon be indistinguishable from real ones. Here’s how](<https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cubic-motion-scanning-technology/>) \[*Digital Trends*\]

**More on CGI:** *[Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.](<https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automating-hollywood-art>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)